From that it seems that CR is a replacement which should work for groff, if I read that correctly, James Clarke used that from the start.
The story about supporting AT&T troff is less clear, but my reading is that CR may not work there.
I'm currently on leave, away from my computer, but expect to address this in help2man after I come back.
My planned fix was to just switch to CR, as that should resolve the issue for pretty much everyone, given the prevalence of groff.
I could provide an option with CR as the default, but that wouldn't really help anyone who received the pre-built date.1 .
On 2024-12-11 18:28, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> troff:<stdin>:236: warning: font name 'CW' is deprecated
That "CW" was generated by help2man so I'll CC this message to
<bug-help2man@gnu.org> as per
<https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/#Reports>.
Can you suggest what help2man should use instead of \f(CW? Help2man
needs be be portable to older groff and likely to traditional troff.
To the help2man maintainers: apparently groff now complains about \f(CW;
see <https://bugs.gnu.org/74808>.